Schumer said that if Trump objected to Comey's handling of the Clinton email investigation, he should have taken action sooner.

He said he has questions as to why Comey would be fired after it was found that Russia interfered in the presidential election.

"Were these investigations getting too close to home for the president?" he asked.

Schumer called the firing a "deeply troubling" piece in a pattern of firings that included former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara.

He put the onus of fixing the reputation of the Department of Justice on former U.S. Attorney for Maryland Rod Rosenstein - who was recently confirmed deputy attorney general - because Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation.

Watch Schumer's full remarks above, and check out reaction from more top Democrats HERE.

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